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July 22-26, 2009: Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Political Survey---Nationwide survey solicits the public's views on tighter restrictions establishing which medical procedures will be covered by Medicare and Medicaid.

"(And thinking about some ways to pay for changes to the health care system.) Would you favor or oppose...tighter restrictions on what medical procedures Medicare and Medicaid will cover?"

33% Favor

58% Oppose

9% Don't know/Refused

Subpopulation/Note: .

Survey by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Methodology: Interviewing conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, July 22 - July 26, 2009 and based on 1,506 telephone interviews. Sample: national adult. 1129 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone and 377 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 114 who had no landline telephone. [USPSRA.073009.R52D]

Formal Citation

Pew Research Center for the People , Jul, 2009. Retrieved Sep-9-2010 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html